text: # using a hashtable to count individual items
  
  # define a set of items that we want to count
  
  fruits = ["apple", "grape", "orange", "mango", "apple",
            "orange", "mango", "pear", "banana", "grape",
            "mango", "date", "banana", "pear", "orange"]
  
  # TODO: create a hashtable object to hold the items and count
  basket = dict()
  
  # TODO: iterate over each item and increament the count for each one
  for fruit in fruits:
      if fruit in basket.keys():
          basket[fruit] += 1
      else:
          basket[fruit] = 1
  
  # print the results
  print(basket)